{"id":1844780,"date":"2025-07-26T06:33:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1844780"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:33:34","slug":"sharpiegate-investigators-placed-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/07\/sharpiegate-investigators-placed-on-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpiegate Investigators Placed on Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CNN reports<\/a> that two NOAA officials who led the internal \u201cSharpiegate\u201d inquiry\u2014which found that NOAA leadership violated its ethical standards and scientific integrity policy<\/a> when they backed Trump\u2019s Sharpie-adjusted hurricane forecast map<\/a>\u2014were placed on administrative leave on Thursday. In a complete coincidence, one of the officials they found in violation, then-acting NOAA administrator Neil Jacobs, has been nominated to become Trump\u2019s new NOAA administrator, with a committee vote on his nomination coming next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously: Inside NOAA During Trump\u2019s Sharpie Mapmaking Period<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN reports that two NOAA officials who led the internal \u201cSharpiegate\u201d inquiry\u2014which found that NOAA leadership violated its ethical standards and scientific integrity policy when they backed Trump\u2019s Sharpie-adjusted hurricane forecast map\u2014were placed on administrative… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-07-26T10:33:40+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3luuefsldmn2h","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3luuefsldmn2h\",\"cid\":\"bafyreigp6tkq6qi47zdny6emfgkugwl6bgvo7w2pzpj2z52co2fmplwjb4\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreie44fwithouykoskfpamdow2cjsbkcfxqtemlm3mq4wozgpjrjxcu\",\"rev\":\"3luuefslmfv2h\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[662,159,448],"class_list":["post-1844780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-hurricanes","tag-noaa","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788060,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/inside-noaa-during-trumps-sharpie-mapmaking-period\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844780,"position":0},"title":"Inside NOAA During Trump\u2019s Sharpie Mapmaking Period","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Remember the nuttery surrounding President Trump, his erroneous warning that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama, and his Sharpie-adjusted hurricane map? 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